Home Stretch

Home Stretch is a “distributed festival” of small artistic acts taking place in Madison, WI bet Information and registration is at homestretch.art.

Welcome to “Home Stretch”, a Summer Festival of Small Art Events

Home Stretch is a “distributed festival” of small artistic acts taking place in Madison, WI between the summer solstice (21 June) and the autumn equinox (22 September). By appointment, local artists are offering intimate performances and other arts experiences throughout the summer. In this time of transition between COVID lockdown

s and eventual reopening, Home Stretch explores how forms of performance and other kinds of aesthetic sociality can help us re-learn how to be together. Participating artists have committed to meet or exceed city, county, state and CDC COVID-19 guidelines. While there are no public health orders currently in place, each work is clearly described so that you can sign up for experiences based both on your interests and your comfort level. Currently most works are planned for outdoor locations and don’t require masks. The title Home Stretch refers less to the idea of the final part of a race, since the pandemic is far from over. Rather, it’s about artists stretching their homes into public space, and the public stretching out of lockdown bit by bit. These art experiences are a chance to stretch both social and artistic muscles. All events are free to attend, though some performers may pass a hat or request donations to specific causes. Home Stretch is a project of Spatula&Barcode, a Madison-based arts collaborative devoted to conviviality, criticality and commensality. More information about Spatula&Barcode can be found at https://spatulaandbarcode.net/ and you can follow on Instagram (if you post about Home Stretch on social media, we encourage you to use ). Home Stretch is funded in part by grants from the University of Wisconsin Division of the Arts and the Madison Arts Commission, with additional support from the Wisconsin Arts Board.

09/11/2021

PERFORMANCE SPOTLIGHT:

Cow by Coffee by Michael Peterson

https://www.homestretch.art/performances/cow-by-coffee

09/09/2021

INSIDE LOOK: Morning Practice

Help create a new “Morning Practice” — a sequence of accessible, eclectic movements to start the day! This outdoor event welcomes and values a diversity of bodymind experiences, honors COVID-precaution requests, and dips a toe back into in-person collaboration.

by Cyra K. Polizzi

https://www.homestretch.art/performances/morning-practice

09/08/2021

NEW PERFORMANCE: Music for the Equinox

Father-daughter duet Elm Duo performs magic-themed music for the autumnal equinox from the front porch. We like to call our style folk cabaret, an eclectic blend of acoustic music from bluegrass to jazz to klezmer and more.

https://www.homestretch.art/performances/music-for-the-equinox

09/02/2021

INSIDE LOOK: Front Porch Bingo

"Jen Plants and her family have been staging “Front Porch Bingo” on occasional Friday nights, inviting neighbors and others to gather outside their home in lawn chairs for a rousing, 30-minute game of bingo.

The family has always loved bringing people together. Before the pandemic, Plants had mapped out a plan to perform a play for audiences in every room in her house. But with the arrival of COVID-19, squeezing a crowd into her living room was no longer possible.

Eventually, as COVID restrictions loosened and the weather warmed, she turned to bingo. Plants announced the event on a blackboard on her front sidewalk and purchased props, prizes, and even a bingo wardrobe.

“What I have missed most about live performance is that sitting together with a group of people and laughing collectively, or sitting with a group of people and feeling that tension,” she said. “And you get both those feelings with bingo.”

Friendly but also impressively competitive, the crowd that now assembles twice a month for a "Home Stretch" version of “Front Porch Bingo” vies for an array of zany prizes — from a life-size cutout of President Joe Biden to a giant inflatable roller skate.

“We go for the comedy,” Plants said. “It’s just about having fun, about bringing some joy.”'

From the Wisconsin State Journal: https://madison.com/wsj/entertainment/arts-and-theatre/watch-now-madison-artists-venture-out-with-home-stretch/article_8d4c7f2d-27ed-5796-907c-502f6585ca73.html?utm_medium=social&utm_source=email&utm_campaign=user-share

Front Porch Bingo: https://www.homestretch.art/performances/front-porch-bingo""

08/31/2021

INSIDE LOOK: Solarpunk Futures

Come playtest Solarpunk Futures, a new artist's game created by members of Solarpunk Surf Club! Solarpunk Futures is a rules-light role-playing game where players imagine the pathways to a desirable world from the perspective of a utopian future. Through dialogue and collaborative worldbuilding, collective and visionary narratives emerge of a new society, along with plausible scenarios for how to get there.

https://www.homestretch.art/performances/solarpunk-futures

08/30/2021

New article in the Wisconsin State Journal. 🍅

Short, free and creative, these "small artistic acts" around Madison help artists and audiences take a step towards one another.

08/29/2021

INSIDE LOOK: What We Honor

We are inviting small groups of people to create individual and meaningful cyanotypes (camera less images exposed by the sun) with us. Gather and bring small objects that help you get through the pandemic to use to create your cyanotype.

By Angela Johnson & Justin Bitner

https://www.homestretch.art/performances/what-we-honor-

08/27/2021

INSIDE LOOK: Stories of Resilience

Do you have a story of resilience? A story of experiencing joy during times of struggle? While you talk, I will weave a small basket for you to keep. It may not be a perfect basket, but it will be functional, if for no other purpose than to hold the memory of our interaction.

By Teresa Audet

https://www.homestretch.art/performances/stories-of-resilience--

08/25/2021

INSIDE LOOK — Rapt Gifts: Serially

A two-part performance & workshop of wrapping, talking, giving, receiving, and losing found objects in patterned paper designed and printed by the artist.

By Derick Wycherly

https://www.homestretch.art/performances/rapt-gifts%3A-serially

08/23/2021

INSIDE LOOK: Growing Season

Come see how the garden grows. While you're here, join me as I water my dissertation research. I will be reading selected texts by the singular feminist writer and performance artist Deb Margolin, garden-side.

by Zoe Cohen

https://www.homestretch.art/performances/growing-season

08/17/2021

Thanks, UW-Madison School of Education!

‘Home Stretch’ festival adds new performances August 11, 2021 Spatula&Barcode has announced five additional participatory artworks in the “Home Stretch” festival, bringing the total number of projects to 17. “Home Stretch” is a “distributed festival” of small artistic acts taking pla...

08/10/2021

PERFORMANCE SPOTLIGHT: Floodplain

Step out your front door and into this surreal and neighborly live art experience. Slipping from the pedestrian to the dream-like, Floodplain offers a brief, experimental movement encounter that is customized to your location.

By Bethany Alwa & Marina Kelly

https://www.homestretch.art/performances/floodplain

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http://homestretch.art/

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